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Candy Pfau's avatar

He clearly, when they let him speak has the beginning of dementia. He is like the straw scarecrow. We’re all in an Alice in Wonderland world. And he is King in his mind.

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Jeannene's avatar

Excellent! Call him a communist! Communist! Communist!! You do realize Stephen Miller is deathly afraid of communists. Despite the fact he is shaping this country into a Marxist regime. And of course tRump just nods along to his enshitification (may I use this outrageously accurate term) of this amazing land.

Keep up the good work, Charlie!! Thank you!!

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Martha's avatar

Anyone who believes that an “11-year-old baby girl” wants a doll has never raised a child or had any meaningful contact with children. That “baby girl” quite likely wants a new Play Station.

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Kelly Eggers's avatar

Dear Charlie, I am an admirer of you and your work. (and if your love of your doggies. But…Please don’t lump Bernie in with Mr Trump. Wanting healthcare, fair wages, affordable housing and reasonably priced education is not careless cruel or unreasonable. Neither is asking the very rich to pay their fair share. Bernie and Mr Trump are not the same. ♥️🇺🇸

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Kelly Eggers's avatar

If=of and there should be a parentheses after doggies.

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Anne Hopkins's avatar

Good column today with great comments. Gives me hope.

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Marvin J Ramirez ❌👑's avatar

I just love all the mocking comments!

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Anne Hopkins's avatar

Me, too. Like a support group.

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Kiera Stroup's avatar

Why is it the girls that have to give up toys? Do boys have to give up Matchbox cars and Tonka trucks? (I realize I’m dating myself but I had a daughter and my boy toy reference comes from my brothers in the 70s). But you get the point. And Jonah is right about the action figures. My brothers had tons of those too. I guess only 2 GI Joes or Action Jacksons?

In the poll above I said 12. Because the question was emotional age. And Trump is a perpetual 12 year old playground bully.

And my final comment/question is about the beautiful dogs. Is that a normal people-sized couch they are on? Because they are huge! But sweet 💜.

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Anne Hopkins's avatar

Trump has a toy airplane (I’m guessing AF 1) on the table between the sofas in the newly (and sadly) tacky Oval. He is a dangerously needy and insecure man, always needing to bolster his self-image. When he told Mark Carney that everything is for sale, he was again projecting: it is Trump who is for sale, Trump who can be bought.

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Kiera Stroup's avatar

Yeah I saw that yesterday. It’s a YUGE airplane. Why? Tacky, gaudy, gross.

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Anne Hopkins's avatar

Excellent point!

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Gundy Walton's avatar

The buffed up President has more cleavage than I do. I don’t like that.

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Sy's avatar

I read these rundowns of the latest bonfires with this expression on my face 😳, even after knowing the news beforehand. When I slow down and read, it seems much much worse.

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B. Euwer's avatar

just to be fair-Bernie Sanders: Don't Need 23 Choices of Deodorant, 18 Choices of Sneakers When Kids Are Going Hungry---- You left out "when kids are going hungry"- WHAT a difference. for trump it's you dont need dolls , but I will be giving billionaires tax cuts. and shit in my gold toilet.

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Eva Seifert's avatar

So a billionaire with a private jet (that his supporters pay for), who has toys coming out of his ears, a wife who spends tens of thousands on a dress, who gilds everything he owns with fake gold, is telling kids they can't have toys for Christmas. And 5 pencils - use them until they're nothing but nubs. His stupidity/insanity is apparent to all except the MAGAs and Rs in Congress.

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Diane Battista's avatar

Excellent today

Beautiful portrait of your dogs

Cannot believe the image they put on the White House posting

You just can’t make this stuff up.

How many dolls do you think Ivanka Trump had?

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Emily's avatar

And which of her Barbie dolls did she take to the plastic surgeon for her desired results? Space Barbie or Malibu Barbie, or whichever of the multitude she had?

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monoview21's avatar

Another sigh of relief from the doggies, Charlie. Still home and have the freedom to look at the birds and deer and wonder what it would be like to chase them.

How many dog toys should they be allowed?

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Wendy's avatar

I dunno. Shouldn’t there be a limit on the number of private planes, rounds of golf played, overcooked steaks, ballroom parties, rallies, cheeseburgers, cheap red hats made in China, tuxedos, private limos, custom golf clubs, ugly golf shirts, country club ownership, hotel ownership, salon visits, designer handbags, designer shoes, designer dresses, fashion shoots, etc?

Trump lives in a privileged world of consumption & excess. As does his family.

Our checkbooks will be going up in flames - while this asshat & his family continue to have corrupt overseas individuals and oligarchs shoving money into his pocket.

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Jeff Lazar's avatar

Welker is beyond pathetic...she's not a journalist, she's just another enabler/normalizer. NBC is equally liable for its censoring of important information that Donnie Two Dolls revealed in the interview.

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Anne Hopkins's avatar

I think this is precisely why NBC put her in the role. And it is a role.

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Nancy K Socha's avatar

I am a grown ( retired) woman who likes to draw using colored pencils. I have MANY and I'm not done yet. DON'T EVER TELL

ME what I can or can't do, trump!

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monoview21's avatar

I am a geologist and one of the best things about it, is that we drop acid and play with colored pencils.

The acid to determine if a rock contains calcium carbonate (limestone) and colored pencils for our geologic maps to represent rock types and ages.

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